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You do realize that those nice people in Transport Security Administration uniforms have been examining your naked body, don't you?
You do realize that scanning machines arrived so swiftly in U.S. airports that there wasn't time to write software to preserve what remains of your modesty -- as you hold your hands up in surrender, just so that you can fly to Seattle?
Ah, you didn't.
Well, I bring news of a cover-up.
No, not that sort of cover-up. The TSA has decided that it's had enough of staring at your denuded selves -- perhaps we're not all such pretty sights -- and it is therefore removing the scanners.
Bloomberg offers that no matter how hard it tried, OSI Systems, the company entrusted to write modesty-enhancing software, discovered it couldn't do it in time.
Congress -- after objections from organizations such as the Electronic Privacy Information Center -- had asked OSI's Rapiscan to write software that would create more neutral images of compliant passengers.
Now, however, the remaining 174 Rapiscan machines will be rapidly removed from our airports. 76 were already retired last year.
The TSA will, however, rely on scanners from othe... [Read more]
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